Report: Living to 100: 80% women

9:45 AM,
Dec. 11, 2012

Written by

Janice Lloyd
USA Today

The 2010 Census found 80 percent of the 53,364 people age 100 and older are women, according to a report out today. For every 100 centenarians, only 20.7 percent were men. The overall number of centenarians has increased 5.8 percent since 2000.

The largest study of centenarians in this country, the New England Centenarian Study, suggests that women handle age-related diseases better than men. But among men who do survive to 100, they seem better able to function than the women. The Census report finds the men were ...